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There's Something about the Beastie Boys

Barney Hoskyns, Request, December 1998

I CAN STILL REMEMBER the morning, way back in the sweaty London summer of 1983, when three skinny New York wiseasses burst into the New Musical Express offices in Carnaby Street brandishing the Ratcage 12" of their single 'Cooky Puss'/'Beastie Revolution'.

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